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One common application of embroidery digitizing is designing sports apparel. Looking at the uniforms of various teams in basketball, baseball, soccer, and other sports; all of them are personalized with their team’s logo, name, and player’s preferred number. And these important details of the team are usually designed through a process called embroidery digitizing wherein the designs are stitched on the fabric reveling a crispier, cleaner, and more professional look. And if you want to know the secrets how embroidery digitizers are able to produce quality embroidered logos, you can find it
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Meanwhile, as the 2011-2012 Major League Baseball season approaches, two baseball teams were not able to escape from controversies as they did some makeover on the their official team logo. Actually, every time a new season for MLB begins, sports critics as well as avid fans are always excited to know what is new in a team; from the coaching staff, to the players, to the uniforms, and to the logos.
The first team that receive lots of comments regarding their logo and uniform improvements is Miami Marlins. As early as September this year, photos of the soon-to-be new logo of Marlins for the upcoming 2011-12 MLB season has already surfaced on the World Wide Web and this receives lots of commentaries (some are positive, but most are negative) from feeling-to-be-perfect people in the world of sports and designs.
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| Color meanings of Marlins new logo: the blue color represents the blue Miami sky and ocean, the orange for the Miami sunset and the south Florida citrus industry, and the yellow for the Florida sunshine |
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| Marlins players unveil their new team uniform and logo for the upcoming MLB season. Photos taken from the official site of Miami Marlins |
The new official logo, which was only unveiled last November 11, 2011 along with the new uniform and team name Florida Marlins, is a colorful letter “M” (bearing the shades of orange, blue, and yellow) with a Marlin leaping over it. The color schemes of Marlin’s new logo, which will be adorned in various Marlins merchandize mostly through
embroidery digitizing, are carefully selected to reflect the culture and how trendy the city is.
The other MLB team that did some changes on its logo is the Baltimore Orioles. The team brings back its cartoon bird logo for their caps as part of a uniform change for the upcoming season. The new cartoon bird logo of Baltimore Orioles that will be festooned also through embroidery digitizing in all team supplies like caps, towels, t-shirts, jackets and other collectibles.
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| the head of Orioles' new cartoon bird logo, which replaces the ornithologically-correct bird, utilizes elements from both the 1970 and 1983 versions |
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| Orioles players introduces their uniform and new logo for 2011-12 MBL season. Photos taken from the official site of Baltimore Orioles |
